This week’s Rhapsody is the Somerset Rhapsody by Gustav Holst performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox conducting.
http://youtu.be/acvOj4OO8Tw
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Lake City’s “Pioneers’ Day” street fair was last Saturday. I confess it is not my favorite street fair of the season but it’s in my neighborhood and I like the community participation.
Anyway one of the more popular venues at it is the pony ride. I’d done a sketch of it last year having been drawn by the look on the horses that looked like tired stoicism. These guys looked like they had a better attitude (probably hadn’t been on the job as long)
Technically this is an amalgamation of all of the ponies on the wheel. They were moving too fast and switching off children for me to get anything solid so I merged all the details together. But for the sake of argument let’s pretend it’s a picture of the one pony whose name I remembered, a stallion named Captain Jack. (I have no idea whether he was named this because of his rum colored hide of if his owners were Billy Joel/Torchwood fans.)
The bank parking lot still smelled of horse several days later (considering all of the interesting times Bank of America is going though I wonder if that makes for an amusing metaphor)
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A funny thing happened just a minute ago I was watching The 206 on Youtube (kind of a SNL for Seattle) While at the same time I was uploading a clip from Pacific Rim for a reference. Anyway the show opens with President Obama making one of those canned announcements all presidents make to local media affiliates when they are in town. Just as this bit was coming to it’s end the Pacific Rim clip started playing. At first it sounded like the President was being interrupted by something official… as if he were making the clip on Air Force One. For a brief second I thought it was part of the bit… until it ended with the warning of a Kaiju Attack!
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Today’s Rhapsody is called the “Turkish Rhapsody” Though it is really a variation of some Mozart pieces in 8 hand arrangement made by Vyacheslav Gryaznov.
played by 2 pianists, violist and flutist
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Another happy birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong!
So let’s raise a cold one in his honor while we listen to one of his greats, Stardust.
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Well I did the free first Thursday at Seattle Art Museum. yesterday. Because I have a membership I generally avoid it because the usually large crowds make it difficult me to get into my sketching zone. But I had gone downtown for The Pioneer Square Art walk and decided to stop at the museum as a way to finish my evening. (and use the bathroom before a long ride home)
This time I was actually enjoying being there to watch people look at the art. But I did get around to looking doing some quick sketches.
These are mostly pieces I’ve sketched before but I found looking at them at different angles to be interesting and informative.
The top right picture is a Congolese Hemba mask. the rest are examples of the Igbo people from Afikpo in Nigeria the one on the bottom right is a “Mma Ji” or Knife Yam mask .
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